I’ve been trying to create a simple rectangle in Carbide Create (version 6 / 608) and it’s rather frustrating. I’m trying to make a 7" x 4.5" rectangle. With version 5 this was so easy, you could just drop a rectangle (of any size) and then enter the width and height in the “Parameters” box and the rectangle would resize. Or you could take advantage of the snap to grid and drag the sides of the rectangle.
With version 6, I can not find a way to create something as simple as a 7" by 4.5" rectangle. Once a rectangle has been drawn you can not resize via the “parameters”… well you can type in anything you want it just ignores it. The object will not change size.
Using the Transform/Scale button provides no way to change the dimensions individually, you are locked to the original scale. And attempting to resize the object via the mouse is just a hot-mess. The hot-points are outside the object, resulting in sizes that snap to grid, but the resulting size (of the object) does not match the grid.
To expand on that, asymmetric resizing changes an object, so a Rectangle becomes a polyline, and loses it’s “rectangleness”, and the dimensions (and corners) may no longer be changed as for a rectangle.
For some reason manually keying in the size isn’t working. Since it is for you, I’m curious if you can use your mouse to resize the box from 7x4.5 to 7x4.75?
I end up with odd measurements like 6.9755 x 4.7373
Keying in the dimensions only works for rectangles as rectangles.
Once the Resizing tool is introduced and used for anything other than numeric, symmetric scaling, the rectangle ceases to be a rectangle, and the numeric control is lost — I usually just recreate it as a rectangle using the rectangle tool, then delete the original.
I’m having the same issue. Both with rectangles and circles. The problem happens to me after I save the file and then re-open it. Once I reopen it I can’t change the dimensions of either the circle or triangle. I did not have this issue with CC5. If I click on the circle it turns a dotted orange circle and nothing happens, the menu where you would normally change the dimensions does not show up.
Also with g-code generated by cc v6 carbide motion is doing some funny things. I have a simple file that I created for a fence. It has 3 tool paths. Pocket, drill, and contour. All are with the same 1/4" end mill #201 with a spindle speed of 18000 rpm. I have verified this 3 times on CC V6. Once running the gcode in carbide motion. It tells me to set my spindle speed at 5000 rpm for the contour, then asks me to change the speed to 18,000 for the drill motion. After the drill motion is done it asks me to switch to a #201 endmill which is already in the machine.
